I have some interesting problems with my tape drives. The Bacula system has three "identical" drives: they are all VXA-1 drives. One is mounted interally and two are in a RakPak, which is connected to the external SCSI bus. The ID of the internal drive is 4 and the external drives are 8 and 9.
When I used the default device definitions of /dev/nst0, /dev/nst1 and /dev/nst2, I got mixed results. I complained about that in an earlier post, and "corrected" it by changing them to /dev/st0, 1 and 2. At this point, Bacula works, to a point. That is, the internal drive works all the time. There is a problem with the external drives, though. I can mount and unmount tapes and even start backups. Those backups fail, however, with this kind of message: 18-Jul 16:51 lbackup-sd: Ready to append to end of Volume "Week_2B" at file=3. 18-Jul 16:55 lbackup-sd: GIS_Two.2005-07_18.16.51.42 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 3:48 on device /dev/st1. There are additional error lines which I will post if they are important. When I try mt -f /dev/st1 rewind I get: /dev/st1: No such device or address When I run ./btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/st1 I get: Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:258 Using device: "/dev/st1" for writing. 19-Jul 11:29 btape: Fatal Error at device.c:295 because: dev.c:289 stored: unable to open device /dev/st1: ERR=No such device or address 19-Jul 11:29 btape: Fatal Error at device.c:288 because: dev open failed: dev.c:289 stored: unable to open device /dev/st1: ERR=No such device or address 19-Jul 11:29 btape: btape Fatal error: butil.c:167 Cannot open /dev/st1 So, there is something wrong with the way I am identifying these tape devices. Bacula can mount, unmount and even write to them up to a point. The last two unsuccessful backups put 592,030,570 bytes and 750,959,576 bytes on them, respectively, before quitting. If I can just identify them correctly, I am confident that they will work for me. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
